Family of Eugene O’Reilly and CRH face Ukraine dispute

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Pictured at CRH’s annual general meeting earlier this year was from Jim Mintern, chief executive, and Richie Boucher, chairman. Photograph: Naoise Culhane
Pictured at CRH’s annual general meeting earlier this year was from Jim Mintern, chief executive, and Richie Boucher, chairman. Photograph: Naoise Culhane

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Well-known motor dealer Eugene O’Reilly’s family faces being drawn into a dispute in Ukraine involving Irish building materials giant CRH, local rival Kovalska and the country’s mergers regulator. Barry O’Halloran reports.

FT columnist Pilita Clark has clear advice for people visiting her in London: don’t take your mobile out on the street or leave it on a table in a bar, don’t put your wallet in a pocket of your backpack, and always stand on the right-hand side of escalators in tube stations.

In Me & My Money, musician and songwriter Eleanor McEvoy relates how “in the crash I lost most of my pension”. She spoke to Tony Clayton-Lea.

Legislation intended to allow employees work until they qualify for the State pension will not be enough for many of the workers who want, or need, to defer retirement, a Siptu official who fights cases on the issue at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) and Labour Court believes. Emmet Malone reports.

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